Fedora Silverblue: An Immutable OS

Fedora Silverblue is an immutable desktop operating system. It aims to be extremely stable and reliable. It also aims to be an excellent platform for developers and for those using container-focused workflows. In this video I am exploring it and giving you my impressions.

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[TheBrainQC]

Always clear explanation of what is all about, TY.

[micleh]

I'm always delighted that you inform your community about interesting Linux concepts like this one. Lennart Poettering has been talking about his vision of an immutable system for quite some time, and I loved it from the get-go. I'd appreciate the Linux community and many distributions focusing their collaborative resources and effort on realizing this concept. It might even start tidying up the cluttered and inconsistent Linux directory tree.

[TheEvilSkelly]

Great overview!

I use Fedora Silverblue on both my desktop and laptop because I like keeping everything separate from the host system. All my used applications are installed as a Flatpak, and I use Toolbox and Podman when needed. I also like the nature of OSTree, where it follows the same concept as Git.

Furthermore, Fedora has a track record of innovating the Linux desktop, e.g. they were the very first distribution to ship with systemd, and now they are using btrfs and PipeWire by default! All their packages are LTS, except kernel and DEs, which is my favorite release cycle. I want packages to be very stable while also using the latest and greatest versions of GNOME and Linux, because btrfs is still work in progress and improves very quickly, and because GNOME is innovating the desktop space as well.

I have been using Silverblue for a couple of months now, and I am not planning to switch to something else. In case you're curious, if I were to distro hop, I would choose MicroOS (immutable openSUSE) or NixOS. All hail containers and immutability!

[derekr]

At last a video about Silverblue that is easy to understand. Well presented and very informative, I now feel I am able to give it a try myself without any worries.Thanks EF for the video.

[Andreas-fhzf]

Danke für das ausführliche Video, Ermanno!
LG

[craigstone]

Silverblue is awesome. All the chmod 400 stuff already done. Out of box with gnome40 used 2.5 gig of ram and loaded up 6.5 gig. Container mgmt is perfect. As good or better than bsd with jails and all ready to go. Aarch64 iso support for arm procs as well. Thanks for showing this Ermanno. This is definitely a production OS. Thanks also to Fedora.

Ran in to first issue with silverblue. No dkms which makes sense for immutable std os release. However there is no rtl8821cu driver for the kernel. Think i need to build my own base in a toolbox with rpm-ostree compose then add in dkms and the drivers i need.

Oops no systemd for Silverblue containers.

Use podman for container management

[GabrielMolter]

Amazing video! I played around on Silverblue and really like it

[abobader]

Thanks for this video that clear for whom do not know what the Fedora Silverblue are, well done.

[PedroMosqueda]

Excellent, i will tried silverblue some time ago, but i return to my beloved arch. Thank you ermano.

[theproudlinuxer]

Wow! 9.6 MB/s! That's an amazing speed!

(Mine has the limit of 6 MB/s, that too works only in Arch. Fedora updates run at 290KB/s - 600 KB/s)

[bookhacloud]

awesome video as usual !
i wish you do more videos about fedora silverblue
seems so interesting, downloading it right now for a try
many thanks

[ivanhoe]

I cannot believe how fast dnf is on your system! It is very usable, while most of the time it can take even 5-10 seconds for a simple search of a package, not even considering installing it... I believe it’s due to the metadata format, which are huge and slow to query if compared to pacman’s or apt’s... anyway, your system feels like you installed in directly on RAM and you host on your LAN a Fedora Repo mirror! :D

[TheSparkybon]

Really like this concept, gonna give it a go. Thanks for video.

[marvicdigital]

I like it Silver Blue, sometime i will try it... I like your video and much more the excellent explanation. Thank you

[an]

Excellent video! Whats your general thoughts on silverblue and the new way of maintaining an OS it brings?

[tulpar]

Thank you just Love it your way explaning

[socvirnylestela]

OOOH 😮 what a good idea. an immutable OS. i wanna try that in the future

[mangenshinobi]

this video made me more want to install silverblue

[DavidHaras]

Hi Ermanno, I installed this a couple of days ago on my laptop it all went well with automatic installation and even correctly put my home folder onto the correct drive that I had selected. I decided to go back to Endeavour as Silverblue although excellent did not have the flexibility that I like with regard to certain programs that I use, for instance I like using Vivaldi as my browser and it is awkward to install in SB, however, I am going to give it a go as a VM just to see what it takes to get the installation to my liking. As always excellent video. :)

[craigw]

Nice, looks bullet proof, perfect for a newbie.